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Animal morphological traits exhibit close associations with microhabitat utilization, critically influencing organismal performance in specific habitats. However, how diverse desert microhabitats drive variations in morphology and related functions remains largely unclear. Here, with two populations of toad\u2010headed agama (<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\"><jats:italic>Phrynocephalus przewalskii<\/jats:italic><\/jats:styled-content>) inhabiting semi\u2010arid and arid areas, we compared the microhabitat characteristics as well as the variations in morphological characteristics and locomotor performances (running and burrowing) of lizards. Furthermore, by relating the functional differences and morphology, and thus the variation in microhabitats, we aimed to predict the adaptive morphological responses of toad\u2010headed agama to a variation in microhabitats. 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